Improvement in clothes-driers



L. A. WAIT;

Clothes-Drier.

Patented Oct. 11, 1875.

INVENTOI F ATTORNEYS.

hLPETERs, PHDTOUTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LORIN A. WAIT, OF RIOEFORD, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 168,688, dated October 11, 1875 application filed.

' August 14, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LORIN A. WAIT, of Riceford, Houston-county, Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved Clothes Rack, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a series of arms pivoted to a collar, whichis capable of sliding up and down on the post, and arranged-in slots in a revolving collar or cap on the top of the post, so that by raising the sliding collar up to the cap the arms will swing down 4 horizontally and radially to the post, and be A represents the post; B, the sliding collar on the post; 0, the arms pivoted to the collar, and D the revolving cap on the top of the post, having slots E through which the arms project. When the collar B is down the arms project up along the post incompact arrangement, but when it is up close to thecap the arms will swing down, as represented by the dotted lines in'Fig. 2, and be supported in the position for holding the clothes. f

Having thus described my invention, Iclaiin as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the post A, sliding collar B, arms O, and revolving slotted cap D, substantially as specified.

* ERVIN WAIT,

IRA V. KEITH. 

